There have always been poor people and there probably always will be. Those who have kept their family to a reasonable size and done their best to manage without smoking, drinking, or as I saw when I watched a bit of that programme last night, eating fish and chips from a shop etc. should get the help they need. If, however, people think that it is OK to have large families, and anything else they want at the expense of the rest of us, they should not get help. We all have responsibilities to our families and other taxpayers and it seems to me that sometimes there is a call for the government to spend more and more without any recognition that such spending comes from all of us. I am happy to spend on those who need it but not on those who are just manipulating the system. Perhaps if all the people who are doing so were stopped there would be more money for the ones who really need it. Now I shall duck.
I don't care how many or how few benefit cheats there are, they should not be allowed to get away with it any more than any other criminal. It seems pointless to me to compare one crime with another when all crime should be stopped. I also have no idea how any of us can guess at the number of cheats because we don't know how many are getting away with it!